Born and raised in South Vietnam, the author is the eldest son of parents who came from North Vietnam.

Upon retirement, he focuses his efforts on researching the Vietnam War and supporting the Vietnam Veterans and the voiceless SE Asia nationalist veterans, via authoring, lecturing and updating history with verifiable factual information. His Vietnam: Peace or Freedom book series currently has two books, Two Minnows (memoir of an ARVN soldier) and The War (war research-based analysis).

Two Minnows was among the Finalists in the 2020 International Book Awards in the military history category. This Memoir reads like an adventure novel even though it is the non-fiction real life story of a platoon leader of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the last few years of this complicated war.